On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:59:12 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> The version tags "ver" and "rel" attributes
may also be non-numerical.
> Why not "epoch", too?
I haven't looked into the sources, but IIRC, inside of rpm, while rel,
ver etc. are strings, epoch is an integer.
See:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213209.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213208.html
Plus, RPM would not get to see repository metadata, but only downloaded
packages, which contain the same bad Epoch values.